09/27/2019
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The School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies and the Interdisciplinary Art and Performance (IAP) Program invite applications for a full-time, benefits eligible, tenure-track assistant professor position with expertise in 20th and 21st century art theory and at least two of the following creative practice areas: interdisciplinarity, language, performance, digital media, installation art, games, sound art, music, 2D and/or 3D graphics, animation, or art-for-art’s sake.
We seek an artist and scholar whose creative work and research falls within the purview of interdisciplinarity, performance, humanities, cultural studies, and/or social practice. Candidates are desired to demonstrate social, cultural, or art critique through their creative practice. They should be able to define a framework for students to experiment with and revise prevailing distinctions between creative and intellectual fields while engaging in open dialogue about topics in contemporary art and life. The candidate should demonstrate an ability to teach in several areas of art by reflecting, complementing, and expanding our existing offerings of interdisciplinary arts curriculum. Candidates must be invested in art-making practice and aesthetic theory.
The IAP program encourages students to develop intellectual and creative strengths towards future careers that revolve around contemporary art and culture. IAP facilitates individual educational and professional goals specific to each student that combine critical thinking, problem solving, conceptual development with other academic areas, from the humanities to digital arts, performance, philosophy, psychology, humanities, and cultural studies. The program facilitates creative research in the form of interdisciplinary exchanges and collaborations.
Teaching will encompass the entire curricular range from introductory courses for both prospective majors and general education students, to intermediate and advanced courses focused on connecting material and mediated art practices with current societal/cultural/art issues and theory. The successful candidate will be able to offer students sustained access and rigorous exposure to interdisciplinary practices in order to broaden conceptions of the role of art. Other areas involved in this conversation would necessarily include: the nature of audience-artist relationships; the erosion of disciplinary boundaries; the potential for creative practice in political mobilization; and the role of art in society and across the arts, humanities, cultural studies, and social sciences in a liberal arts curriculum. Since we are currently launching an online IAP program, it is preferred that the successful candidate will have experience and/or interest in online education.
The candidate will be expected to collaborate and contribute effectively within our community and beyond with a strong commitment to facilitating diversity, equity, and inclusion. ASU’s faculty engage in teaching, research, and service.
Follow this link to apply: https://apply.interfolio.com/68765
